Roller-skate



(No Model.)

J. T. HENDERSON.

ROLLER SKATE. No. 321,968. Patented July 14, 1885.

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ROLLER-S KATE.

JPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,968, dated July 14, 1885.

' Application filed September QQ, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that LJOHAN T. HENDERSON, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Council Bluffs, in the county of IOttawattamie and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Roller-Skates, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention is an improved rollerskate; and it consists in the construction and combination of parts, as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim, and illustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which like letters designate identical parts of my invention in the different iigures, respectively.

Figure l is a side elevation of my device. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same; and Fig. 3 is a similar View of the same in section, the oblique plane of which is shown by the dotted line 00 in Fig. l.Y

The letter A represents said foot-rest,of the general shape shown. Suitably attached underneath the said foot-rest are the hangers B of the front and rear skate-rollers, C. Said hangers are made of suitable metal, and provided with suitable plates, d, by which they are Iirmly'fastened to the foot-rest above, as shown, and also with the vertically-depending jawsj, within which to inclose, front and rear,

and horizontally couple and pivot by the bolt e, the rocking carrier f of the skate-rollers C. Said carriers each consist of aflat top or coupling plate and a pair of vertically-dependent side posts,said platehaving asuitableholehorizontally and longitudinally pierced through it to Areceive the coupling and pivot bolt c, upon which the roller-carrier laterally rocks and swings betweenA the hanger-jaws, and said post-s each being suitably provided with bearing-holes, in which are suitably journaled the shafts and spindles t of the skate-rollers C and said bearing-rollers g, respectively, as shown.

Immediately underneath the bottom of the hanger-attaching plate d, and held by fitting vertical double ilanges between the front and rear jaws, j, of said hangers, is fitted the H- shaped presser-plate n, as shown, which vertically slides within said jaws, and, while clasping the top of said elastic cushion p within the lower pair of side iianges of the plate, serves to compress and tighten said cushion upon the top of said coupling-plate of the carrier f whenever 'said presser-plate is adjustably and forcibly depressed by the adjusting-screw o, suitably made, arranged, and fitted to turn through the footrest A and the plate d, as shown. The cushion p consists of an elastic block of fitting size and shape, of any suitable elastic material, and serves, when forcibly depressed, as aforesaid, to adjustably limit and lessen the lateral oscillation, rock, or swing of the roller-carriers f whenever reciprocally moved by the swaying counterpressures of the said foot-rest above while strapped upon the foot of a skater, and also to effectively spring the foot-rest back to its normal level above the rollers when the skater resumes a vertical position.

Immediately above the middle portion of the skate-roller shaft s are placed vthe bearing-rollers g, which consist ot' a pair of suitable metallic rollers o'f fitting size, and so mounted upon suitable spindles, t, which are suitably-journaled in the saine posts with the roller-shaft, as shown, as to engage with said rotary shaft, and thereby divide the weightpressure of the skater among the respective spindles and. materially reduce the friction of thejournal-bearings. Therefore,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

In combination with a rollerskate,the rocking roller carrier or hanger f, bifurcated as shown, and having the wheel-axle s and rollers g, the latter bearing upon the said wheelaxle, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHAN T. HENDERSON. W'itnesses:

N. M. PUsEY, ALEX. GLEN. 

